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Alison Pill

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Biography

Alison Pill is a Canadian actress and a former child actress. Pill began her career at age 12, appearing in numerous films and television series. She transitioned to adult roles and her breakthrough came with the television series The Book of Daniel (2006). That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2006). Pill had prominent roles in the films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), Plain Truth (2004), Milk (2008), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Vice (2018), the television series In Treatment (2009), The Pillars of the Earth (2010), The Newsroom (2012–2014), American Horror Story: Cult (2017), Star Trek: Picard (2020–2022), Devs (2020), and Them (2021).

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Snowpiercer

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Vice

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

As Kim Pine

Dan in Real Life

As Jane

The Pillars of the Earth

As Maud

Hail, Caesar!

As Mrs. Mannix

Midnight in Paris

As Zelda Fitzgerald

The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey

As Det. Linda Arndt

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Ghosts Our Machines Keep

A chain about virtual reality, digital afterlife and grief, beginning with Yeon Sang-ho's Paradise Lost and moving through Korean and international cinema's scr...

8 films

Ghosts in the Machine

From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.

8 films

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